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“Happy Birthday, Monica Lita Storss!” [by Anthony Madrid, via Facebook]
MONICA LITA STORSS (5/13)Macintosh and Fuji.I don’t wann-ika eat the cores.This birthday poem is written to Monica Lita Storss.Who is the fairest for whomThe roaring harmonica roars?This birthday poem is written to Monica Lita…
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The Mystery of Mom by Ken Tucker
My mother died a few years ago. I’ve discovered what many people already know: that you can’t predict how you’ll remember someone after she or he is gone, what memories will bob to the…
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Memo to Bridie Flynn (by Terence Winch)
My mother's name was Bridget Flynn. One of eleven children, she was born just outside of the town of Loughrea, in county Galway, Ireland, on 23 November 1906. Eight of her siblings stayed in…
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Mom, Michelangelo and Me [by Moira Egan]
Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms out there! Like many wandering Americans, I've spent much of my adult life living in places that happen to be far away from my mother, from…
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A Rose is a Rose (by Emma Trelles)
Mark’s garden, Pompano Beach, circa 2007 Before my love and I decided to live together in a waterside condo, he grew these plush and inky fuchsia roses in the backyard of his duplex apartment.…
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Mother’s Day (by David Lehman)
The brain has chamberson different floorsa warren of officesupstairs a librarya wine cellar belowbut the soul is simplelike a mother whopacks your lunchboxand you walk homewearing the raincoatshe made you takethough it is sunny…
